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Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240; Ancient Greek: Σέξτος Ἰούλιος ὁ Ἀφρικανός or ὁ Λίβυς) was a Christian traveler and historian of the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries.
Chronographia (Greek: Χρονογραφία), meaning "description of time", and its English equivalents, Chronograph and Chronography, may refer to: Chronographiae of Sextus Julius Africanus, covering events from Creation to 221; Chronographia, part of the Chronicon of Eusebius of 325; Chronograph of 354, covering events from Creation to 353
The attribution to Julius Africanus is not generally agreed with in later scholarly literature, and was a quirk of the choice of manuscripts. Religious Discussion at the Court of the Sassanids (HTML) ( archive.org PDF version ), 2010 translation of De gestis in Perside by Andrew Eastbourne
The version used by the compiler was heavily interpolated and has been called the Chronicon mundi Alexandrinum ('Alexandrian world chronicle') or Chronographia Alexandrina ('Alexandrian chronograph'). [18] The second part is a collection of regnal lists mainly derived from the Chronographiae of Sextus Julius Africanus from AD 211. [1]
Africanus, Sextus Julius. Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240) was a Christian traveler and historian noted for his influence on Eusebius. Known as the father of Christian chronography. [272] [273] The extant writings of Julius Africanus (1886). Translated by Scottish educator Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond (1838–1905). [274]
John of Antioch (Greek: Ίωάννης Άντιοχείας) was a 7th-century chronicler, who wrote in Greek.He was a monk, apparently contemporary with Emperor Heraclius (reigned 610–41).
Heinrich Gelzer (1 July 1847, in Berlin – 11 July 1906, in Jena) was a German classical scholar.He wrote also on Armenian mythology. [1] He was the son of the Swiss historian Johann Heinrich Gelzer (1813–1889).
Sextus Julius Frontinus, better known as Frontinus, author of treatises on aqueducts and military tactics; Sextus Julius Major, proconsul of Africa AD 141–142; Sextus Julius Severus, a Roman governor in the 2nd century AD; Sextus Julius Saturninus, praenomen possibly Gaius, one of the usurpers of Gallienus; Sextus Julius Africanus, a ...